as in load
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
the accident was caused by an 18-wheeler with a loading in excess of the legal limit
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as in filling
to place a weight or burden on
students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work
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as in packing
to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat
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Recent Examples of loading
Eve Chen, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
In early July, Day said the high water complicated the loading and unloading of barges at the port, contributing to the tonnage slow down.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Visitors should be clear on your value proposition within a few seconds of loading your website.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Testing would include loading and unloading of the rides, normal operation of the ride, and all the systems associated with the ride.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
In early July, Day said the high water complicated the loading and unloading of barges at the port, contributing to the tonnage slow down.
—Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
Rousteing marks the end of the lockdown in France — and the eve of couture — by loading up a barge with models wearing recent and archive Balmain designs, plus French singer Yseult.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Visitors should be clear on your value proposition within a few seconds of loading your website.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loading
Noun
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Yield strength describes the point at which a material permanently deforms under stress, marking the boundary between elastic flexibility and structural failure – crucial for engineers designing load-bearing structures.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Sleek and minimal in design, this pack helps keep your load light and orderly.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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So Instacart is reviewing orders from last October to see what might be filling trick-or-treaters’ bags across the country this year.—
Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Folding whipped topping gently into the pudding mixture keeps the filling fluffy and mousse-like.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Libra season swings you back and forth, packing your schedule.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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But as rumors swirled that the gang was on its way to launch another assault, merchants in the market could be seen hurriedly packing their goods.—
Ychmuth Corneille,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Virgin Galactic's space plane can carry six crewmembers, but one seat will be removed from the cabin on this flight to accommodate the mission's research payloads, according to the university.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Its pairing with the high-payload J-15T could give Fujian’s air wing greater reach and saturation strike capability.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Early expansion through franchisees lets founders avoid burdening corporate capital with every new location.—
Gary Occhiogrosso,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Hopefully, leaders will make the transition to autonomous service before burdening consumers with even higher sales tax rates.—
Marc Joffe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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State programs have helped offset some of the burden, but costs remain high, Hamm said.—
Sydney Barragan,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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Indexing or eliminating caps would shift the burden from those least able to pay and smooth market frictions hurting families of all ages.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Construction on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge began in 2022 with a test involving 96 trucks, weighting around 3,300 tons combined, having been successfully completed on August 25.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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But another fast-growing alternative is the SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD), which differentiates itself with an equal-weighting approach to stocks held in its underlying index.—
Krysta Escobar,
CNBC,
19 Sep. 2025
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Sierra Nevada ultimately lost out on the Commercial Crew competition to Boeing and SpaceX, but in 2016, a cargo version of Dream Chaser was on-ramped onto a NASA program to deliver cargo to the space station.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, this past weekend, reports emerged that two American military cargo jets deported people to Africa on flights that appear to have had their transponders turned off, preventing tracking by obscuring their locations from public flight databases and other nearby aircraft.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Loading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loading. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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